Modus Inoperandi

Maud MARTIN

Based on scenarios anticipating possible future lifestyles, Maud Martin drew up a list of neologisms that were then used as prompts to generate images using artificial intelligence. These objects, as plausible as they are dysfunctional, appear as absurd relics of our techno-in-dustrial society. By thwarting predictive systems through language, this series invites us to question our imaginations and our relationship with technical objects. The use of an invented vocabulary constitutes a field of experimentation here, with the resulting images appearing as footnotes to an imagined fiction. The machine’s element of error creates a gap into which it seems tempting to step, to escape the program and reveal its absurdity.

curator        Guillaume PASCALE
partners       Octobre Numérique - Faire monde, Ecole                                                      Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie